O2 Travel bolt-on for business users updated

The UK network O2 has announced that on the 12th April 2016, there will be some significant improvements to the roaming bolt-on O2 Travel while in Europe. The network has also released details on its reduced EU pricing that will come into effect on 28th April 2016, as a result of new EU regulations. O2 Travel Changes - effective 12th April 2016 What's changing? Previously on O2 Travel, a customer would pay £1.66 for a days' worth of data (GMT) in Europe, with calls having a connection charge of 41p to talk for up to 60 minutes and texts being charged at the standard rate of 4p. O2 has announced that from the 12th April, a customer will pay £1.66 a day (GMT) to use data, minutes and texts in Europe. This means if a customer travels in Europe, they can make business calls, browse online and send texts all for £1.66 a day. All of which comes in addition to their UK allowance. The £1.66 charge will be triggered automatically when calls are made to other O2 Travel destinations including the UK, or when texts are sent or data is used. Any unused data, calls and texts won’t be carried over to the following day and O2 Travel won’t be triggered by receiving calls or text messages. Who will get the new version of O2 Travel? Existing customers opted into O2 Travel will be able to benefit from the improvements and this will automatically be applied. New and re-signing customers who opt in for O2 Travel will also benefit. EU Regulation Changes – effective 28th April 2016 On 28th April, O2 will be reducing its standard rate pricing in Europe for calls, texts and data. These changes are the first step in the EU Regulation that is looking to create ‘Roam Like at Home’ where a customer can use their domestic tariff in the EU at no extra cost by June 2017, although the specific details on how this will look are yet to be confirmed.             The regulated rates are still pay as you use and therefore offer the customer very little control, with the potential to run up a bill of £36 on data and any amount on calls and texts. For this reason the regulator has allowed all operators to continue to promote their commercial European propositions, and for O2 this is O2 Travel.              O2 firmly believe that if a customer wants control of their costs in Europe whilst enabling employees to continue conference calling and doing emails on the move, then O2 Travel is the answer. With O2 Travel there is no need for you or your staff to calculate how many minutes you've been on the phone and how many MBs of data you've used to see if you've racked up a bill.       Is there anything that I need to do? O2 Travel is compatible with the Worldwide 24 hour data Bolt On, so O2 advise all regular roamers to use these two roaming propositions when they travel. Heavy users, such as Directors and Sales Managers, should be move towards the Worldwide data Bolt On, in which case there is no need for O2 Travel, for all their data needs Worldwide.